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3.1 KiB
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124 lines
3.1 KiB
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.\"
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.\" vidcontrol - a utility for manipulating the syscons video driver
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\"
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.\" @(#)vidcontrol.1
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.\" $Id: vidcontrol.1,v 1.11 1997/07/24 23:46:35 wosch Exp $
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.\"
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.Dd May 22, 1994
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.Dt VIDCONTROL 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm vidcontrol
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.Nd a utility for manipulating the syscons video driver.
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl r Ar fg Ar bg
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.Op Fl b Ar color
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.Op Fl c Ar appearance
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.Op Fl d
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.Op Fl l Ar scrmap
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.Op Fl L
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.Op Fl m Ar on|off
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.Op Fl f Ar size Ar file
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.Op Fl s Ar number
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.Op Fl t Ar N|off
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.Op Fl x
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.Op mode
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.Op fgcol Op bgcol
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.Op show
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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command is used to set various options for the syscons video driver,
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such as video mode, colors, cursors, scrnmaps, font and screensaver timeout.
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.Pp
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The following command line options are supported:
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It mode
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Select a new video mode. The modes currently supported are:
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.Ar VGA_40x25 ,
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.Ar VGA_80x25 ,
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.Ar VGA_80x50 ,
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.Ar EGA_80x25 ,
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.Ar EGA_80x43 .
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On some laptops the modes
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.Ar VGA_80x30
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and
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.Ar VGA_80x60
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can be used.
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The graphic mode
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.Ar VGA_320x200
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can also be chosen.
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.It fgcol Op bgcol
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Change colors when displaying text. Specify the foreground color
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(e.g. "vidcontrol white"), or both a foreground & background color
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(e.g. "vidcontrol yellow blue").
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.It show
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See the supported colors on a given platform.
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.It Fl r Ar foreground Ar background
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Change reverse mode colors to
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.Ar foreground
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and
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.Ar background .
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.It Fl b Ar color
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Set border color to
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.Ar color
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(only supported on VGA hardware).
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.It Fl c Ar normal|blink|destructive
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Change the cursor appearance. The cursor is either an inverting block
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(normal) that eventually can "blink". Or it can be like the old hardware cursor
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(destructive). The latter is actually a simulation.
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.It Fl d
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Print out current screen output map.
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.It Fl l Ar scrmap
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Install screen output map file from
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.Ar scrmap
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.It Fl L
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Install default screen output map.
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.It Fl m Ar on|off
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Switch the mousepointer
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.Ar on
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or
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.Ar off .
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Used together with the moused
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daemon for textmode cut & paste functionality.
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.It Fl f Ar size Ar file
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Load font
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.Ar file
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for
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.Ar size
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(currently, only 8x8, 8x14 or 8x16).
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The font file can be either uuencoded or in raw binary format.
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.It Fl s Ar number
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Set the current vty to
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.Ar number .
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.It Fl t Ar N|off
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Set the screensaver timeout to
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.Ar N
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seconds, or turns it
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.Ar off .
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.It Fl x
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Use hexadecimal digits for output.
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.El
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/syscons/scrnmaps -compact
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.It Pa /usr/share/syscons/fonts
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.It Pa /usr/share/syscons/scrnmaps
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr kbdcontrol 1 ,
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.Xr keyboard 4 ,
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.Xr screen 4 ,
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.Xr moused 8
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An S<EFBFBD>ren Schmidt Aq sos@FreeBSD.org
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